Watch Dogs: Legion Review II

However, I haven’t found any characters who had the typical hacking abilities like the previous two games: they are not able to change traffic lights, they are not able to call upon cops and members to attack targets, and no one in the game are able to paralyze the city and its infrastructure. I miss those abilities, but I also admire Watch Dogs: Legion’s attempt to go beyond the conventional rules. Besides, vehicles have been marginalized in this game, as there are few missions related to vehicles, and cops’ chasing can also easily be shaken off.

Drone is the key element, because some of the missions have to be completed through drones, which adds more fun and diversity to the game. There is also puzzles like Watch Dogs 2, and you should solve them through changing the rotation of the junction shapes. Sometimes, you even have to solve the puzzle in fire. Some of the puzzles are really difficult, but it also adds fun and diversity to the game.

When you are controlling some specific characters, you may find the gaming experience completely different. For example, you can choose the character armed with heavy weapon (such as veteran) to make gun battle easier. This kind of characters help you complete most of the missions with the use of force. In other cases, you can choose characters who are able to control cameras and spider drones to approach your target and implement hacking. Through this way, you can even complete the mission without going to the mission zone. And you can also recruit characters who work for the private security company, and use their identity to infiltrate into the heavily fortified areas. You can get in touch with those characters in the private security company, as long as you don’t get too close to the guards. There are countless possibilities. The complex game designing encourages players to use different methods to deal with different problems. For example, you can use drones to complete most of your missions.

There are no level-ups for the characters, but there are tasks for the whole team to upgrade, including the ability to hack drones, the ability to reload rapidly and the possession of invisibility devices. All those abilities and devices helps the whole team to upgrade. It’s good that the upgrades should be unlocked by tech points, and tech points should be collected through world exploration or tasks. That mechanism encourages players to explore the world instead of accumulating exp. points by killing people.